This year was an incredible one. It was filled with happiness, beautiful moments, but also tragedy and sadness. Much has happened across the Globe, and we can only thank photographers for being there to capture these heart-moving moments. Some of them are too much to endure, while others prove that there is still hope for humanity. Suddenly, all of my problems seem less important. The following photos really put things in perspective, and while some of them are sad, the message is positive. Live every day with all your might, do not be sad, because somewhere, out there, someone is having a harder time than you, also, never turn away from the problems of other people. We hope these pictures will give you an idea of the world you live in.

1. Twelve year old Nicholas is embraced by his father C.O. Vaudin of the Signal Regiment, on his return from Afghanistan

2. Demonstrator from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is shot with rubber bullets by the police force, during a protest against corruption and price hikes.

Image Credits: Cristophe Simon -AFP – Getty Images

3. Female topless activist from the Ukraine feminist movement is kicked by a man in front of the Great Mosque of Paris, when she raises her fist in protest against Islamists.

Image Credits – AFP – Getty Images

4. Losing the Battle With Fire: A man from Pakistan falls from the burning LDA Building right after the photo was taken.

Image Credits: Damir Sagolj – Photographer

A man wearing traditional white Pakistani clothes disappeared from the window back into the burning building. A minute later, a different man wearing black emerged from inside, but it looked like someone was holding his lifeless body. The body was slowly pushed over the edge of the window and then released. Twenty seconds later the man in white came out again. He sat calmly for a few seconds in the open window with his back turned outwards and then just fell. Source: WiderImage Reuters

5. Burning Man 2013: More than 60.000 people gather together for a week of art, and music, in the great outdoors.

6. Little Boy Cries Out and Holds Mother’s Leg in front of their House, after a 6.6 Earthquake Hit.

Image Credits: Jason Lee, Reuters

April 21, 2013: Rescuers poured into a remote corner of southwestern China on Sunday as the death toll climbed to 164, and number of injured to 6.700. (Longmen village, Lushan County in Ya’an, Sichuan)

7. Rescue Officials Near the Crash of Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 Plane on July 6,2013. Two people were killed, and 130 hospitalized.

Image Credits: Jed Jacobsohn – Reuters

8. A child is rescued from the rubble of a collapsed residential building from Mumbai, India.

9. Two Engineers lose their life when a windmill they were working on catches fire. This is the last photo taken of them alive, on October 29th 2013.

10. Bearer Party Carries Margaret Thatcher’s Coffin to her Funeral Service at St. Paul’s Cathedral

Image Credits: Stefan Wermuth, Reuters

11. Man Without Arms and Feet, Swimming with Sharks in Singapore

Image Credits: Edgar Su

12. Alexander Bragg Falling of his Horse During the Bramham International Horse Trials

Image Credits: Anthony Chepel-Ross / The Press, York

13. Dog Keeping Worm in Somebody’s Jacket, on London Pavement

Image Credits: Stefan Wermuth – Reuters

14. Free Syrian Army Fighter Being Treated at Mah’sareen field Hospital.

Image Credits: Jack Hill – The Times

15. Man Walking through the Rubble of the Great Mosque of Aleppo in Syria

Image Credits: Jack Hill, The Times

16. Awesome Image of World Economic Forum Attendees, as they Check Their Phones (Davos, Switzerland)

Image Credits:Jeson Alden – Bloomberg

17. A Bahraini Anti-Government Protester Catches Flames After his Gasoline Bomb is Hit by Bullet Fired from Police Officials